Now Britain's ratepayers join fight against the CTAs
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THE National Union of Ratepayers' Associations this week told the Prime Minister and Mrs. Barbara Castle that her proposal to establish Cl'As is "totally unjustified". And the Union wants its executive council to take "all possible steps to oppose this potential burden on the already overburdened body of ratepayers".
At its annual conference in London it passed this resolution:— "This conference views with serious concern the proposal of the Minister of Transport to nationalize municipal and private bus undertakings by the setting up of a series of huge Conurbation Transport Authorities with unlimited powers to precept on the rates not only for operating losses on buses but also on railways. Conference believes that this proposal is totally unjustified and is certain to lead to still higher fares and heavy subsidies by ratepayers, and that the present democratic system of municipal ownership is satisfactory and ought not to be destroyed; and that in any case no further action should be taken by the Government until after the findings of the Royal Commission on Local Government."
CO-ORDINATION PLAN
THE Transport Committee of the Scottish Economic Planning Council is to invite the co-operating of the Highlands and Islands Development Board, and the Economic Planing Consultative Group for the North East, Tayside, Borders and South West in promoting passenger transport co-ordination.
13s. 4d. PAY AWARD
SCOTTISH municipal bus inspectors are to receive a pay award of 13s. 4d. a week from July 1, it was decided at a meeting of the JIC in Edinburgh on June 2. Mr. H. K. Penman, Scottish national organizer of the National Union of Public Employees, said after the meeting that the employers had said they would discuss salaries of municipal bus inspectors and foremen soon.